"If you confirm (our mandate), we will continue to serve you better than before, if not, we will transfer the power to whoever you want", promises Nikol Pachinian this Sunday.
Faced with a political crisis which is currently plaguing Armenia, the Prime Minister is trying his best.
“I will resign in April.
I will resign not to resign, but to have an early election.
But I will continue to exercise the functions of interim Prime Minister ”, warned the leader of the Caucasus country during a meeting with Armenians.
Calls for resignation
The early parliamentary elections scheduled for June 20 must end the political turmoil that has rocked Armenia since its scathing defeat in the war between it and Azerbaijan, for control of the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave in the fall 2020.
For weeks, Nikol Pachinian resisted protests and calls for his resignation.
Very criticized, he is denounced as a "traitor" by the opposition for having signed in November an agreement of cessation of hostilities very unfavorable to his country.
Several senior military officials sacked
This ceasefire had been negotiated when the situation was catastrophic for Armenia, cornered and forced to retreat on several fronts while the Azerbaijani army threatened the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Brought to power in 2018 by a popular revolution denouncing the corruption of post-Soviet elites, Pachinian increased the anger at the end of February by deciding to dismiss several senior military officials, accusing them of wanting to instigate a coup.
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A failed coup attempt in February
Power and opposition ended up agreeing on the snap elections in June, although the latter called for a new demonstration on Sunday.
Since this agreement, martial law decreed because of the war has been lifted and the Armenian Constitutional Court has ordered that the charges against ex-President Robert Kocharian, a detractor of Nikol Pachinian, be dropped.